Field Trips

The KYANA Geological
Society normally schedules an outing the third Saturday of each month.
We explore Kentucky, Indiana, and travel as far as Arkansas, Georgia, and
North Carolina. A trip to Mexico was even organized by several
of our members! Members receive liability insurance through the
S.F.M.S. since access to quarries is not open to individuals. Recent
trips include:

Central Kentucky

Site 1

This location is well-known for
calcite in garnet-like crystals (colorless, white and petroleum-stained
brown) up to 5 cm wide. It also produced transparent yellow
crystals, up to 8 cm. These turn colorless under sunlight. A variety of Ordovician
fossils may also be found here.

Calcite in Garnet-like crystals

Transparent yellow crystals

Colorless under sunlight

Ordovician Fossils

Site 2

Famous for fluorite,
barite, calcite, and rarer minerals like strontianite (in the
Walker vein and in crystallized stromatoporoid sponges.) We have
also found fossils of the Middle Ordovician Age.

Site 3

Upper Ordovician
fossils abound.
Brachiopods, byrozoans, cephalopods, clams, corals, scolecodont teeth, and
snails are often found. Many brachiopods are lined
with calcite crystals and sometimes with dolomite and celestine.

Cephalopod

Southern Indiana

Site 1

Members collect from
the spoil banks of an old strip mine. Fossils are found in siderite
concretions and commonly include a variety of fern leaves.

This is a
famous Upper Mississippian fossil locality. It is known for
articulated crinoids, abundant blastoids, Archimedes bryozoans,
brachiopods, snails, trilobites, and trace fossils. Vertabrate remains include a variety of shark teeth and dermal scales,
rare coelancth, and chimerids remains.